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Well after 3 years of living in Georgia I finally went muddin' in the Sierra. It was a blast getting the truck kind of dirty. It was a little drier then normal but still found a couple of pits to run through. Truck did great! The only problem I had was when I ran over, what I thought, was a dirt pile. It was actually a tree trunk. Truck came right down on driver side step. Bent it all out of wack & broke the center bracket (cheap steps anyway). Other than that I had a blast & now my coworkers can't say I'm not willing to get the GMC dirty no more.

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don't get my wrong mudding is fun...but i can't bring myself to abuse my truck like that

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Congrats man! Muddin is so fun! My truck see's mud on a weekly basis and don't worry about those steps haha 4x4 trucks look much better without them!

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Muddin' is fun, but not in my truck. That's what the Jeep is for.

 

It's too dang hard to get all the mud out of the places it gets into.

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i dont mind light offroading in my truck, as it can definatley handle it, but like others have said i just cant stand cleaning it forever to get the mud out

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Mud is fun but I save that for the quad! Trail riding??? oh hell yea! I have found out that cleaning mud involves a rain coat, goggles and a power washer, only time I go that deep is when that late nigth "can you help im stuck" call comes from a friend (and it has to be a good friend too). It doesnt look like you did to bad! here is a morning after picture from a rescue mission.... Sad part is I was only out about 30min!

 

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don't get my wrong mudding is fun...but i can't bring myself to abuse my truck like that

 

Could never do that either. I know how you feel.

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don't get my wrong mudding is fun...but i can't bring myself to abuse my truck like that

 

 

Its all fun till you gotta wash it!

 

 

Congrats man! Muddin is so fun! My truck see's mud on a weekly basis and don't worry about those steps haha 4x4 trucks look much better without them!

 

 

Muddin' is fun, but not in my truck. That's what the Jeep is for.

 

It's too dang hard to get all the mud out of the places it gets into.

 

 

i dont mind light offroading in my truck, as it can definatley handle it, but like others have said i just cant stand cleaning it forever to get the mud out

 

 

I'm waiting for snow to try mine out. It cleans up much easier .

 

I second all of the above.

Plus when you depend on your truck to go back and forth to work or take the family out I just couldn't do it.

 

I've heard to many horror stories were someone went mudding and had there truck come home on a flat bed.

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My solution is... mud like crazy in the old truck, and just don't clean it :lol:

 

 

We normally take ours swimming to get them clean after mudding

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Mine is the Grizzly 700

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